BAM! WHAP! SKKKZZZTTT welcome back to what is becoming increasingly less joyful for me to read.

Killing folk? Well these are comics so I kinda get it.

Meeting alternate evil versions of beloved chars? Again, yep comics signed on for this.

Purposely leaving chars behind? Now wait a minute assholes...!!!

I'll try to explain, but first our realities.

The first three-parter is uh quite the world...that we've apparently already been to, so time to revisit from a different angle. I gotta admit Namora is pretty spot on - why the hell do they all just listen?

But the story decided they'll leave TJ (who's totally okay with it???), take some guy named Beak who's a GOOD FATHER and HUSBAND and possibly one of the most tolerant people ever instead.

Exiles ain't just baby killers, murderers and world enders--they homewreckers too now.

An issue where Morph gets to "shine".

Then our last world where the Exiles face their toughest opponent yet: common. fucking. sense.

A lot of this arc is predicated on the Exiles unwavering faith in Blink, lack of proper planning and luck. So. Much. Luck.

You see for some reason or other a mutant I've never heard of nor have we seen be an issue before (which she should have been given her powers) tips off Mystique who impersonates Blink for the majority of the book.

This is where the blind Faith in Blink comes in. Lotta red flags are thrown up, but no one REALLY thinks about those.

Which comes to their second idiocy, they never thought to make a plan in case this happens. It never once occurred to any of them, most of whom I can safely state know Mystique in some capacity, to make a contingency plan in case she pretends to be one of them.

And lastly luck. They were lucky that Calvin Rankin was like "well damn why be a criminal!". They were lucky that Mystique didn't create more issues. Mimic appears to be lucky that Blink didn't know he slept with Mystique!Blink.

So much luck.

Give me back TJ dammit. ( )